We arrived at the hospital bright and early (6:45am) Tuesday morning to get checked in and ready for the day. The night before we explained to Timo a little of what was to happen but as soon as he started saying he didn't want to go, we stopped talking about it. Thank goodness Young brought his ipad!! I can't imagine getting through this whole thing without it. We had about two hours to kill before the actual medical work, so it was great to distract him with motorcycle races and snowboard games.
All and all the surgery went really well. I was able to go all the way into the operating room with him, which was good and bad. Good for him but it was really hard seeing him fight the anesthesia mask, I think I was crying as much as he was. But he was only in there for about 30 min and we were able to be right back at his side when he came too. It was so sad to see him uncomfortable afterwards, but we knew it was the best thing for him...and the sweet, sweet nurses were trying to make him as comfortable as possible. I think the IV was bothering him as much as his throat. Eventually, after I was able to hold him and a little more pain medication, he was resting peacefully.
One helpful hint I read about was to maybe have a special gift for them when they come to, just to help distract from all that is going on. We had a little transformer firetruck...perfect. He was so excited to show all the nurses how his firetruck turned into a superhero!
He finally wore the nurse down to take out his IV! I had to walk away, very weak stomach, but Timo was totally into watching. Young even tried to distract him with the ipad but he wanted to see every detail...along with asking a million questions about all the monitors he was hooked up with. Once the 20 questions started, we knew he was getting back to his old self.
And that was it...we were all done by noon. Tonsils and adenoids out, home in 5 hours! As difficult as the going in and coming out was, I'm really glad we had it done and it's behind us. The doctor told us his tonsils and adenoids were much larger than he thought, so that made us feel better about what we just put our little boy through! I think the sweetest part of the day was hearing Young whispering Timo's bible verse (Isaiah 41:10) to him as he was going into surgery and coming home to Cameron waiting for us at the door with a gentle hug and kiss for her brother. Ahhh, God is good.
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